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Ilaria Amato

I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.

Currently searching for a position that allows me to build tools leveraging a combination of visualization, machine learning, and software engineering to help people explore and understand their data in new and useful ways.

Education

M.S. Student, Psychological Science

University of Illinois

Urbana, IL

2021 - 2019

B.S., Psychology

Endicott College

Beverly, MA

2014 - 2010

  • Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana

Research Experience

Graduate Student

Decision Neuroscience Lab

University of Illinois

2021 - 2019

  • Independently analyzed and visualized data from randomized controlled trial on changes in cognition and brain structure following a 16-week fitness intervention.
  • Conducted data cleaning for a 600+ row spreadsheet with over 1000 variables.

Research Assistant II

Football Players Health Study

Harvard Medical School

2019 - 2018

  • Developed mathematical model to predict the transport of sulfur through the environment with applications in waste cleanup.

Clinical Research Coordinator II

Albers Lab at MIND

Massachusetts General Hospital

2018 - 2014

  • Analyzed and visualized data for CATOS fish tracking project.
  • Head of data mining project to establish temporal trends in population densities of Mysis diluviana (Mysis).
  • Ran project to mathematically model the migration patterns of Mysis (honors thesis project.)

Research Assistant I

A1 Pain Imaging Lab

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

2014 - 2013

  • Led development and implementation of interactive data visualizations to help users compare themselves to other demographics.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Psychology Department

Endicott College

2014 - 2013

  • Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
  • Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.

Publications and Presentations

Aerobic Fitness Predicts Decision-Making Competence in Young Adults.

Poster for Psychology Symposium at University of Illinois.

N/A

2020

  • Ilaria Amato, Neal J. Cohen, Charles H. Hillman, Arthur F. Kramer and Aron K. Barbey.

Olanzapine Improved Symptoms and Olfactory Function in an Olfactory Reference Syndrome Patient.

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (2017), doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.17050096

N/A

2017

  • Albers, A. D., Amato, I., & Albers, M. W.

Open-Label Placebo to Increase Grip Strength.

Poster for Annual Conference of the North Shore Chapter of Sigma Xi

N/A

2015

  • Malcolm, J., Amato, I., & Kelley, J. M.